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Hasan, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the High Springs-Alachua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32615. The Survey maps it on the Alachua quadrangle. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Hasan within Alachua County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hasan, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Hasan, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Hasan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 454 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA -4919 FIRE
7 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/112TH BLVD
22 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRANCH CLUB/ALACHUA
16 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFARM(01)
31 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service630
21 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service237 SOUTH (04)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,767 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,767 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hasan between 1860 and 1975: 883 Animalia, 682 Fungi, 132 Plantae, 30 Unrecorded, 24 Protozoa, 16 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gholson Jr., A. Broce, A. H. Smith and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1896Edmon WestGainesville
A photograph of the species Podomys floridanus, not of this specimenPodomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)1860James LayneGainesville, 8 mi NW
Animalia1873M. RobertsMouth of New R. (Aluchua/Bradford/Union Co. line)
Aves1897not recordedAlachua Co
A photograph of the species Chordodes puerilis, not of this specimenChordodes puerilis Montgomery, 18981906E. AndersonHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Elsinoe fawcettii, not of this specimenElsinoe fawcettii Bitanc. & Jenkins1907RolfsAlachua
A photograph of the species Fusicladium effusum, not of this specimenFusicladium effusum G.Winter1908Fawcett? H. S.Santa Fe
A photograph of the species Chrysops univittatus, not of this specimenChrysops univittatus Macquart, 18551911W. D. AppelSanta Fe
A photograph of the species Stereum complicatum, not of this specimenStereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr.1914ConwayGainesville, San Falasco Hammock,10 miles NW of Gainesville; On hardwood
A photograph of the species Coleosporium elephantopodis, not of this specimenColeosporium elephantopodis Thüm., 18781915G. G. HedgcockGainesville
A photograph of the species Coleosporium helianthi, not of this specimenColeosporium helianthi (Schwein.) Arthur1916G. G. HedgcockGainesville
A photograph of the species Grus canadensis, not of this specimenGrus canadensis pratensis F.A.A.Meyer, 17941916J. J. SimpsonHigh Springs, near

All 1,767 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hasan: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alachua Co Public Works - Kirby MineSandUnknown
La Crosse DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectSurface

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Santa Fe1.8 miles8
La Crosse2.1 miles11
Hainesworth2.7 miles11
Newnansville4.0 miles11
Bland4.4 miles8
Spring Hill5.1 miles12
Burnetts Lake5.4 miles11
Traxler5.5 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q14685887The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294799. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.